Trends & Research

Nearly half of entrepreneurs with investable assets of at least $25m increased their allocations to direct private equity deals, according to a report from the French bank’s private wealth unit.

A recent report from Proskauer Rose shows GPs have greater autonomy on term extensions.

How the Global Investor 100 was created.

Morgan Stanley said in a recent report it expects 'additional high-net-worth allocations to represent around $1.5trn of AUM by 2025'.

Grafine Partners' founder and chief executive Elizabeth Weymouth on increasing LP sophistication and opportunity in the cracks of the blind-pool model.

Growth equity, secondaries, impact funds and long-hold vehicles cropped up in this year's list of the industry's biggest firms and the strategies they manage.

Smarter analytics will 'forecast future performance, identify untapped opportunities, expose hidden risks, and assist in strategic decision making,' Navneet Govil, SoftBank Vision Fund CFO, said at PEI's CFO & COOs Forum last week.

'The fact that half of all private equity investors think ESG investing will in itself boot their portfolio returns should be a wake up call to anyone who still thinks ESG is a 'nice to have' or a PR tool,' said founder Jeremy Coller.

Individual investors would like to invest in private equity but need a product, according to Schroders’ head of private equity.

The current debate about whether the inflation spike we are seeing is ‘transitory’ should be reframed as ‘reflation vs sustained inflation’, according to Commonfund’s Ryan Driscoll.